People fear nuclear power because of a small number of worst cases.
The freak occurrences at Windscale, Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island, and Fukushima occurred over a 60-year span, but are held up as representative of nuclear power.
But no one looks at the lasting damage coal mining has done over the years. The towns where children constantly inhale fly ash, or end up buried under a landslide of coal refuse. Where the mining debris seeps into the water table. Where the miners develop chronic lung diseases.
It was stupid and short-sighted to shut down the nuclear power plants.
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>Well... people are stupid I guess
People fear nuclear power because of a small number of worst cases.
The freak occurrences at Windscale, Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island, and Fukushima occurred over a 60-year span, but are held up as representative of nuclear power.
But no one looks at the lasting damage coal mining has done over the years. The towns where children constantly inhale fly ash, or end up buried under a landslide of coal refuse. Where the mining debris seeps into the water table. Where the miners develop chronic lung diseases.
It was stupid and short-sighted to shut down the nuclear power plants.